Into the fifth 12 months of the lingering course of for the appointment of Assistant Professors in significantly understaffed Bihar varsities, Bihar State College Service Fee (BSUSC) is now grappling with a brand new problem of faux expertise certificates allegedly issued by competent college authorities.
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“The controversy is set to snowball as forged certificates are said to have found their way to the commission through most universities and in many cases the signatures have also been allegedly forged with proper seal with or without the connivance of the competent authorities. It is all a matter of investigation,” mentioned a senior college official.
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The expertise certificates are essential to make or mar the prospects of the candidates within the ultimate choice, as they carry 10 marks.
BSUSC chairman Girish Choudhary additionally confirmed that some cast expertise certificates had been detected, nevertheless it was past the fee to confirm whether or not they had come below the seal and signature of the competent college authority (registrar of universities).
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“I have already written to the department of education and all the universities to verify the authenticity of the experience certificates before confirmation of service of the selected candidates, though I have not put an embargo on their joining as that would affect even the genuine ones. I have also asked the universities to submit action taken report in each case of fraud for further action,” mentioned Choudhary.
Citing an instance, Choudhary mentioned {that a} candidate had bought marks for expertise on the idea of his certificates submitted, however when requested for he mentioned it had been misplaced. “As he had been shortlisted on the basis of the documents he had submitted and had got marks for experience, his interview was conducted and he was also selected, but his result was put on hold and the LN Mishra University (Darbhanga) was asked to verify. His experience certificate was found fake in verification and his candidature was terminated,” the BSUSC chairman mentioned.
He mentioned that he has categorically written about vigorous verification of paperwork earlier than affirmation of service. “In BN Mandal University also, four such candidates have been detected even though they possessed experience certificates counter signed by registrar, who has to do it with due verification. We have found such discrepancies in 8-10 cases and referred them to the concerned universities. We will also not feel hesitant to refer these cases to the state vigilance investigation bureau, as the entire process suffers due to such acts,” he added.
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Former BN Mandal College vice-chancellor AK Roy mentioned that there have been reviews of expertise certificates being issued arbitrarily in lots of universities, which may occur solely in case of financial or different extraneous concerns.
“Once such teachers are appointed, they could also use other devious means to get their records right or delay the process, as they would be part of the system. The best practice would be to send the list of selected candidates to the universities for thorough verification of experience certificates with appointment letters and payment details of selected candidates before joining itself. Other documents should also be verified beforehand. It is a fact that the commission cannot identify forged certificates with original signature and seal. It is for the concerned universities to do,” he added.
JD-U MLC from Kosi lecturers’ constituency and syndicate member of the BNMU Sanjiv Singh mentioned the system needs to be such that quickly after ultimate shortlisting of candidates, the schools needs to be despatched the checklist by way of mail for ultimate verification in a time-bound method and the registrars and principals needs to be requested to submit affidavits.
“Once the wrong teachers join, their removal will always be difficult and even if they are removed after a long process, which has been the track record in the state, the chance of another bonafide candidate would be lost forever. There is no waiting list of candidates. All precautions need to be taken before hand, else it would land in another legal battle at some point and do more harm than good to the already limping state universities. The accountability should be fixed,” he added.
One other former VC, who didn’t wish to be quoted, mentioned that after the detection of cast expertise certificates, which might be the tip of the iceberg, the division of training has issued a format with regard to expertise certificates to all the schools, however that was additionally too difficult and will find yourself creating extra hurdles for the bonafide candidates.
BSUSC had marketed 4,638 vacancies of assistant professors in 52 topics on September 23, 2020, simply forward of the announcement of state meeting elections. Until the HC stayed the appointment course of in 2022 over quota ambiguity, 461 candidates had been appointed. The keep was lifted on April 18, 2024 and and up to now the choice course of for 39 topics have been accomplished.
For 316 posts of historical past, the interviews of 1091 shortlisted candidates will likely be held from February 19-24. There are nonetheless 12 topics left. All by way of the method, there have been frequent authorized points and the HC needed to intervene.
Bihar legislature had handed the Bihar state college service fee Act in 2017 to vest the facility of recruitment again within the fee, which was earlier dissolved in 2007. Forward of the Lok Sabha elections, Bihar authorities had constituted the fee in February 2019.